Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-12-10
DAKOTA

with 3 seating capacity Of 800.
The new postofncc a. Storm Lake, Lincoln
comfy, has been discontinued.
The oil famine at Deadwood still continues,
with no prospec. OF abatement.
A chess club 10 being organized at RAPID
City with an initiation fee OF 81.
The Crookston Independent entered a new
year Of existerc &c with 1T last issue.
The ~artesiau Well water affords prope ling
power for the tow mill at Yankton.
The number OF students now enrolled at
the Madison normal school Is l25.
A live elk that would dress 800 pounds has
been on exhibition at Rapid City.
A sale Of condemned cavalry horses took
plse, at Fort Meade last Saturday.
Tie Rapid City SJard OF trade is agitating
the opening OF the sioux reservation.
Brickmakegs Of Yankton have about $50 600
brick on hand ~ TIE close Of the season.
The esrly c'oatug OF business houses move
meut has been inaugurared at Raid City.
Artesian lake at Kimball is now frozen
aud in good conditionfo . ''merry skaters"
a society for the enforcement of the local
option law WAS forned Friday night at Huron.
There arc forty saloons and one he very Al
Grand forke 70 DC affected by the local option
law.
According to the vote cast at the late cleo
ton, Miller is the largest own west Of Hu
ron.
PIERRE and kcNichols are to have n pupi
lestic encounter at Deadwood at an early
date.
A mammoth pumpkin measuring Ave fee'
Ia circumference is on exhibition at Aber
deem.
Capt. David Cock, OF London, Eogland
has invested s32, 500 In tin mioes at Dcac
wood.
Yellow jaundicc or blood poisoning is hav
Ing q limited run among horses OF Slora
Falls.
The Deadwood papers say that the Influx Of
people to that city was never greater than a
present.
Track laying on the Sioux Falls branch o.
the Illinois Central will be flushed abou
the 10th.
Dr.. Hurd, OF Spencer, has been adjudget
insane and will be removed to tie asylum In.
mediately.
The lest elk tors CT iron shipped from tn
Jefferson company at Desdwooi averaged
1920 per ton.
A party Of railroad graders returning from
Sioux Falls were snowed In at Waterfowl
over Sunday.
G.. w. Lewis, g brakeman, broke his leg a
RAPID City Monday evening while jumping
from . train.
An additional telegraph wire is being strun,
on the line Of the Manitoba from Aberdeen
to Wahpeton.
George Trumbo, Of Choteau Greek, will
soon take possession OF the Grand Centra
hotel at Tyndall.
The question as to the dividing Of McCool
county into five commissioners districts 4
now being agitated.
Five hundred dollars have been subscribe,
toward paying the expenses of the Chamber 0
Commerce at Bismarck.
The Milwaukee road has stationed al
engine with snow pillow attachment at Roscoe
ready for any emergency.
Three railroads have surveyed in Deadwoo,
and petitioncd the council for the only en-
trance to the city there IA.
The Pierre Journal halls the time when pro
hibit!on will be enforced IN that city, for l
says beer will then be 5 cents per glass.
The work OF filling In the Central depo
grounds at Sioux Falls has cos. SIC, 900 thu
far, and the work Ia not quite completed yet
Work on q new toboggsn slide at Yanktol
began Thursday. 1t Is $50 feet IA length an
30 feet from the ground TO the highest point
John Conroy, a Northern Pacific employe
fell 20 feet from a bridge at Grand Forks an,
struck on his side but was not seriously In
iured.
No movement has been made IN SsnborI
county to send delegates to the one-state coE
ventiou at Aberdeen. The call is being utterl
ignored.
The Deadwood Pioneer says work is to b
resumed on the northwestern railroad In tel
days and the grade pushed from Whitewoo'
to Deadwood.
Theodore G. Olson, at Sioux Falls, wa
sentenced to the pen!tentiary for one yea
and four months fer obtaining money unde
false pretence.
Grand Forks is said TO be growing taste
than any city In Dakota. Its growth is sub
stantial and prosperity stalks up and dowl
the city streets.
Brown county gave the largest majority o
any county In the territory against DIVISION
The citizens OF Aberdeen voted Saturday a
TO whether the board OF education shoult
Issue bonds TO the amount Of 5000 fer tn
purpose OF completing the high school build
Ing.
Wildwood, ten miles from Deadwood, |
now the Black Hills terminus OF the Chicag
and Northwestern railway. This snortens tn
stage journey to a brief pleasure drive owe
the mountains.
a Germsn girl approached the ticket win
dow at the depot at Aberdeen Saturday nigh
to purchase $ ticket TO Philadelphia, but I
her dismay she found she was SO short Of ia
necessary sTnount. The citizens of that cit
on learning her grief, raised the amount, an
providing her with a basket Of provision
started her on her journey rejoicing.
Mrs. John Scholtz, OF Wall Lake township
Minnehsha county, committed suicide at
late TOUR Saturday night by hanging. He
husband was on trial In Sioux Falls for oil
tanning money urder false pretenses, and th
wife, Ia modification at the Disgrace, ende